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A Modern Yet Classic Shakespeare
… This summer , the American Repertory Theater staged a new Gatsby musical … the couple, hoping to refocus the play on love. “It is often considered to be a play about hate,” she said in an … Actors push around a large wooden wall, a manifestation of the division between both the pair of lovers and the two …
Kosher Delights
… LaRochelle, J.D. ’96, catered a 250-guest Jewish wedding in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. The bride, the daughter of a Reform rabbi, was a vegetarian and many of the groom’s …
Issue: March-April 2011
On Cattle's "Palpable Self-Esteem"
… All cattle will build a social order within the herd. While the rank of a dairy cow is based almost entirely on its mass, … communicated in A Cow's Life: The Surprising History of Cattle and How the Black Angus Came to Be Home on the …
Issue: January-February 2005
Life Lessons
… In a room where somber faces are the norm, Steve Cappiello is beaming. The tall, muscular … sounds small, but it was big for me. I never thought a hunk of plastic would change my life as much as it has.” … day laborer from Brockton, Massachusetts, the “hunk of plastic” offers a chance to regain independence, support …
Issue: January-February 2006
Cambridge 02138
… Scarcity and Poverty “The Science of Scarcity” (May-June) presents important … in a long time. James E. Hart Ann Arbor, Mich. Sunrise After Joel Studebaker’s letter ( Momentous Image, …
Issue: July-August 2015
"Teaching yoga is just pure pleasure."
… job, in large part, as front-line preventative care. "A lot of the ailments that take people to the doctor's office are stress-related—life puts us off balance, and …
Issue: September-October 2003
Teaching with Video
… In this Web Extra that accompanies the article " Professor Video ," watch a trailer for Professor Shigehisa Kuriyama's class, "Culture and Belief 11: …
Issue: November-December 2009
University People
… by Jim Harrison Effective September 1, assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) David B. Fithian also began …
Issue: November-December 2004
Sarah Wyman Whitman
… much a public personality, she was a painter, a designer of book covers and stained glass, an interior decorator, an author, poet, teacher. The notes she wrote with a quill pen, her style of dress—ostrich feathers, beaver bonnets, exuberant shades …
Issue: January-February 2008
Louis Deslauriers
… Deslauriers was obsessed with airplanes. He would draw them in class: cargo carriers, fighter jets, passenger … physics, and a Ph.D. in applied physics, at the University of Michigan. His trajectory shifted during his postdoc, when an adviser introduced him to the study of science education—“essentially, learning about how we …
Issue: March-April 2023
Online Updates
… The online version of “Super-Earths and Life,” by Phillips professor of astronomy Dimitar Sasselov, director of Harvard’s … (see “ Life’s Beginnings ,” September-October 2013), is the first HarvardX course to incorporate adaptive-learning …
Issue: May-June 2017
Harvard Business School’s $1-Billion Campaign
… In the transformed Shad gymnasium, Harvard Business School … evening, April 25: a day that began as another in a series of cool, tardy spring mornings (when the exhortation on a … as healthcare, business and the environment, social enterprises, digital innovation, and competitiveness. ( The …
A Walk through History, with Justice Ginsburg as Guide
… laws that have disadvantaged women and reinforced notions of men as breadwinners and women as dependents: first by arguing cases before the Supreme Court as an attorney for the American Civil … things began to change. Today, "it's amazing how the laws of that genre are all gone," Justice Ginsburg said last …
Baker, Bisected
… The reconstruction of Harvard Business School's Baker … a 100,000-square-foot new "academic center" and reorient the entrance toward Allston — began with the cleaving off of the building's existing back side. The project in …
Issue: March-April 2004
Exit Gray, Enter Keohane
… Hanna Holborn Gray Nannerl O. Keohane Courtesy of Hanna Holborn Gray Courtesy of Duke University Corporation member Hanna Holborn Gray, Ph.D. '57, will step down from the President and Fellows of Harvard College (as the …
Issue: January-February 2005